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| Patry Copyright Blog Closed                                        |
|   from the pecked-to-death-by-ducks dept.                          |
|   posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 06, @00:43 (The Courts)    |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/06/0210203 |
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[0]I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “William Patry, noted
copyright expert and Google’s top copyright lawyer, has decided to
[1]close his personal blog. (For no reason that he has explained, the
archives are gone too.) Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be very newsworthy, but
that little blog has made a lot of news, outing the [2]ACTA treaty and
discussing lots of other [3]important pending legislation. Mr. Patry
gives two reasons for the closure: his personal views were being
attributed to Google, and the current trends in copyright law are too
depressing. Though I am not the only one to have done so, as someone who
has contributed to that misunderstanding by listing his credentials
without a disclaimer, I would like to publicly apologize to him.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do to reverse the depressing trends
in copyright law that I’m not doing already.”

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Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/support
1. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080803135012312
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2312244&tid=158
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/2224200&tid=123